Lehigh University Jazz Band 1979-1980

01-Groovin' Hard

5:55

02-Gary

5:45

03-Tiger of San Pedro

4:54

04-I Remember Clifford

4:29

05-Wind Machine

3:13

06-West End

6:24

07-Jaberwocky and Titinium Blues

11:36

raw audio

44:40

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This whole album is very fun. Apparently track 3 is named after a Sherlock Holmes story (Wikipedia)

The title is based on a character in one of the 56 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. Don Juan Murillo is a deposed dictator from Central America, formerly known as “The Tiger of San Pedro”, living in England, in the story “The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge”.

Converting records with a USB turntable and Raspberry Pi Peviously I left a laptop sitting by my record player running Audacity but that was inconvenient so I stuck a Raspberry Pi over there and run these commands via SSH.

I am not an expert, I’m just using the equipment I have so please don’t interpret this as “the best way to convert records”

You can hear some records converted by this process at by browsing posts tagged “vinyl”

Components:

• Record player with USB output (AT-LP120XUSB)
• Raspberry Pi (Using a 3B but probably anything will work)
• NAS

Prior Art:

• Hi-Fi analog to digital with IceCast
  Utilizes IceCast to stream audio around your network. Involves running several services and is primarily focused on streaming.

• PiDeck
  A system for DJing with your turntable, not for converting

• Z-LiveRec
  This is an interesting piece of software but is built as a desktop application. I’d rather run everything from the command line. If it had a web interface I would consider purchasing it.

• Ripping Vinyl Records on a Raspberry Pi
  This is very close to what I am doing! Ed describes some issues writing to his local storage and file server but I haven’t noticed anything similar. Perhaps he was using an older Raspberry Pi? (I’m using a Raspberry Pi 3)

My Setup:

1. Connect Raspberry Pi to record player via USB

2. Ensure mount directory exists and mount the NAS via SMB

   mkdir -p /tmp/nas;
   sudo mount.cifs //nas.local/home /tmp/nas -o user=daniel,nounix,uid=$(id -u),gid=$(id -g)
   

3. Change to the relevant directory

   cd /tmp/nas/my_new_record
   

4. Identify the correct audio device

   arecord -l
   

   I’m going to be using card 2, device 0 which is indicated on the second line:

   **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
   card 2: CODEC [USB AUDIO  CODEC], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
       Subdevices: 0/1
       Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   

5. Begin recording

   # Start a tmux session so the recording continues even
   # if the SSH connection gets disconnected
   tmux;
   
   sudo arecord --device "hw:2,0" -vv --vumeter=stereo -c 2 -f "S16_LE" -r 44100 raw_audio.wav;
   

   Explanation:

   • --device "hw:2,0" This means “card 2, device 0” that we found in step 4
   • -vv Double verbosity. Activates the VU meter
   • --vumeter=stereo Shows two channels in the VU meter
   • -c 2 Record two channels
   • -f "S16_LE" Record in Signed 16-bit little endian. I picked this simply becuase it matched the Audacity default that I was previously using
   • -r 44100 record in 44.1 kHz. Again, picked because it matched the Audacity default

6. Finish recording by pressing ctrl-c on the arecord command

Future work:

• Automatically mount SMB on startup
• Detect the end of the record / the record getting stuck and send a Pushover notification
• I thought about automatically recording when the Pi detects a record playing but I decided that it would be too confusing to have to deal with unlabeled files

Moonshine And Marches from Old South Mountain (1963)

1

Entrance Fanfare

0:33

2

Down the Field

1:10

3

Victory March

1:00

4

Lehigh Salute - Royal Fanfare / Men of Harlech / Glory of the Trumpets / Hail the College (Hail to Lehigh) / Lehigh Triumphal

3:27

5

Football Medley - The Old Silver Goble / Rearing, Tearing / Everybody Takes His Hat off to Lehigh (Lehigh Will Shine)

3:15

6

A Son of a Gambolier

3:35

7

The Foundation

3:31

8

On the Mall

3:10

9

Precision Drill - Fanfare / Invercargill / On the Square

5:20

10

Lehigh Drinking Medley - Fanfare / My Eyes are Dim, Eagles, Fireman Bill, Glorious, My Girl's From / Sunset in Bethlehem

4:30

11

Fanfare

0:41

12

The Black Horse Troop

3:25

13

Belle of the Ball

2:47

14

Class Reunion (from Alma Mater Suite)

1:46

15

Alma Mater

2:59

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Moonshine and Marches from Old South Mountain This record is from 1963 and includes the first recording I have heard of the Lehigh Band at Carnegie Hall in 1962 (Track 7, “The Foundation”).

1972 UConn Marching Band Vinyl (MC-1860)

1/16

Prance-On and Husky Fanfare

0:49

2/16

UConn Husky

1:33

3/16

Old Connecticut

1:44

4/16

When Johnny Comes Marching Home

1:44

5/16

Down by the Lazy River

1:40

6/16

Rockin' Robin

1:11

7/16

Yo Yo / Theme from Shaft

3:37

8/16

Captains from Castille

1:58

9/16

Peace on Earth

3:70

10/16

Dancing in the Street

2:22

11/16

The Russian Show - Borodin Second Symphony, Procession of Nobles, Samarkand, Back in the USSR, Sabre Dance, Russian Finale

9:60

12/16

1972 Street Series

4:70

13/16

Runaway

2:40

14/16

Two Silhouettes on the Shade

1:10

15/16

Witch Doctor

1:10

16/16

Sealed with a Kiss

1:22

01

MC-1860_1972_UCMB

44:53

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UConn Marching Band Vinyl 1973 (USR-6204)

1

Husky Fanfare

0:26

2

UConn Husky

1:34

3

Old Connecticut

1:53

4

Brandywine Quickstep / Yankee Doodle / God Bless America

2:48

5

Bully

2:20

6

1973 Street Series

3:14

7

Music for Diverse Thirsts

1:54

8

Witch Doctor

1:13

9

Save the Last Dance for Me

2:44

10

I will Follow Him / Wipe Out

3:70

11

Chapel of Love

2:10

12

Hocus Pocus

4:60

13

Tears of a Clown / Touch Me in the Morning

3:39

14

Bill Bailey

2:70

15

South Rampart Street Parade

3:55

01

Raw audio

39:45

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1972 UConn Brass Band Class and 1973 UConn Marching Band I’m expanding my reach from just Lehigh vinyls to also include UConn records.

Songs of Lehigh (vol 2)

01

Klaxon

3:10

02

Victory March

1:26

03

Sunset in Bethlehem

0:54

04

Rearin' Tearing

0:53

05

Hail to Lehigh

1:14

06

Goblet

0:54

07

Campus Dreams

2:13

08

Men of Lehigh

1:60

09

Alma Mater

2:48

10

Noble Men

2:16

11

Hoo-Rah-Ray, Lehigh!

0:17

12

Cheer for Alma Mater

0:29

13

Lehigh's Loyal Sons

0:48

14

O LaFayette, Poor LaFayette

0:46

15

Cliff-Clef Riff

1:24

16

Rise 'N Shine

0:54

17

I Can't Believe

2:70

18

Paper Moon

1:17

19

Tea for Two

2:13

20

Til We Meet Again

1:19

21

2022-04-17 Situation

46:43

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Songs of Lehigh 1948-49 (vol 2) My quest to acquire and digitize all of the Lehigh University vinyl records continues.

This is now my second undated Lehigh vinyl. We could probably pin down the year by contacting the admissions department but it’s a good reminder to date your work!

Update, 2025: I found some info on a website called Worthpoint which seems to reproduce listings from online stores that indicates that this is disk two of a three disk set from 1948-49!

I’ve reproduced the reproduction here for future reference:

Excellent vintage condition. Some damage to the outer case binding and to one of the record sleeves (small split at bottom). Outer case has some scuffs and stains consistent with age of the item.

Set of three 10 inch 78 speed albums featuring the Lehigh Glee club dating to the late early 1950s. Packaged in a very nice bound book-style cover. Includes the following songs:

Side 1 - Campus Dreams, Spirit of Lehigh, Sunset in Bethlehem
Side 2 - Animals a’comin, Lehigh-Ho, Alma Mater
Side 3 - Hail to Lehigh, Victory March, Cheer for Alma Mater, Lehigh’s Loyal Sons
Side 4 - Beer Song
Side 5 - Boolia Boshka (featuring Moravian College for Women Singers)
Side 6 - This I Have Wanted to Hear (featuring Moravian College for Women Singers)

POPS - Lehigh University

1

Salute to Lehigh University

1:29

2

Pride of the 97

2:17

3

Centennial Song

1:36

4

Commando March

3:28

5

Irish Tune From County Derry

3:40

6

Shepherd's Hey

2:10

7

The Sinfonians

5:90

8

March

4:35

9

Song With Words "I'll Love My Love"

2:17

10

Song of the Blacksmith

1:18

11

Fantasia on the "Dargason"

3:60

12

Porgy and Bess

10:54

01

Lehigh University - POPS - Raw audio

43:58

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Pops by the Lehigh University Band Another Lehigh vinyl acquired and now available on Archive.org. From discussion in the Marching 97 alumni band Facebook group we’ve learned the following:

1. “Pops used to be the spring concert for Wind Ensemble, IIRC”
2. “Jim Brown was a faculty member at Lehigh from 1973 to 1979. So, this record probably came from mid 70’s”